Best Hot Chocolate Bomb Mold

I want to show you the COOLEST and easiest way to make hot cocoa bombs using a 3 piece mold! It makes it so easy! Just add your chocolate up to the first line, add in the inner liner and then the top piece and chill the chocolate until it sets. Then BOOM! Perfectly flat hot chocolate bomb shells with flat edges. This mold is a lot easier than using the polycarbonate molds and look just as shiny!

I like the 70mm size but they come in 50mm as well. I also teach you FOUR trendy hot cocoa bomb designs like the grinch, a gingerbread man, a sparkly snowman and a golden Christmas tree! Stick around for the end of the video to see how I rate the "pop" and color of each hot chocolate bomb!

The Three Piece Hot Chocolate Bomb Mold

I got this three-piece mold from this ETSY shop and it comes with six sets but you can also buy them individually online if you search for three-piece mold. You can also find the three-piece mold in other shapes like hearts and eggs.

Ingredients To Make Hot Chocolate Bombs

If you are a beginner, I highly recommend you use these meltables from sweet tooth fairy. You can get them at Michaels or Walmart and they are very smooth and tasty! They come in lots of colors and even flavors! Or you can use almond bark which is really inexpensive but the taste suffers so keep that in mind.

If you want to color your meltables make sure you use candy colors not food coloring or it will ruin your chocolate. I usually just buy the color of meltables that I want to use to save time to color my hot chocolate bombs.

I prefer the taste and texture of real chocolate usually but it is a bit more work. I like Cacoa Barry couverture chocolate. If you want to learn to temper your own chocolate you can check out this tutorial. If you don't need a lot of chocolate, you can also use LINDT chocolate bars which is a really nice quality.

I use cocoa butter colors from Chef Rubber to color my real chocolate. Just melt them down and mix them into tempered chocolate.

Here's a list of all the ingredients I used to decorate my hot chocolate bombs.

Gingerbread Man Bomb

• Pumpkin spice meltables
• White meltables
• Black meltables
• Chocolate meltables
• Pink petal dust for cheeks
• Mini marshmallows
• Freeze-dried mini marshmallows
• 2 Tablespoons Cocoa mix

Grinch Hot Chocolate Bomb

• White couverture chocolate (requires tempering)
• Yellow cocoa butter
• Green cocoa butter
• Red heart sprinkle
• Heart marshmallow
• Mini marshmallows
• Freeze-dried mini marshmallows
• 2 Tablespoons Cocoa mix

Snowman Hot Chocolate Bomb

• White meltables
• Crystal sugar sprinkles
• Flash dust
• Black meltables
• Orange modeling chocolate
• Freeze-dried lucky charm marshmallows
• Strawberry Nesquick

Gold Christmas Tree Bomb

• White couverture chocolate (requires tempering)
• Gold highlighter dust
• Green chocolate (I used the leftover from the grinch bomb)
• Gold star sprinkle
• Silver dragees
• Jimmy sprinkles for the gold powder

How To Use The Three Piece Mold

The first thing you want to do is melt down your chocolate. You can use meltables if you don't want to temper your chocolate or you can use real chocolate and follow my chocolate tempering tutorial. If you use real chocolate and don't temper it, it may not come out of the mold and will be very fragile and possibly streaked-looking.

1. Make sure your molds are clean but polishing them with a paper towel
2. Melt down your meltables or temper your chocoate. It's best to do one color at a time and make all your shells first.
3. Pour a couple spoonfuls of melted chocolate into the bottom mold up to the line. Its ok if you overfill a little.
4. Press in the inner liners.
5. Add the top piece to the three piece mold and press down until the chocolate reaches the top of the sphere.
6. Place the mold into the fridge for 5-10 minutes or until the chocolate contracts (shrinks) in the mold and it can easily be removed. If you see a spot where the chocolate is still stuck to the mold then put it back in the fridge until it fully releases.
7. Take the hot chocolate mold shell out of the mold and remove the inner liner.
8. Place your shells aside until you finish all the shells you want. I just put mine on a sheet pan to the side.

To clean your hot chocolate bomb molds, wash them in hot water, then hand dry.

How To Assemble Your Hot Chocolate Bombs

1. To avoid getting fingerprints on your shells, I recommend wearing gloves.
2. Warm a plate in the microwave for about 1 minute to make it warm.
3. Place one half of the shell onto the plate to slightly melt the edge. Then repeat with the other half of the mold.
4. Place one half of the shell onto a small bowl or a cupcake pan to hold the shell in place.
5. Fill the mold with two Tablespoons of hot chocolate mix
6. Add in whatever marshmallows, candies or mix-ins that you like
7. Place the other shell on top and press with light firm pressure to seal the bomb
8. Use your gloved finger to wipe off the excess chocolate
9. Continue putting all your bombs together before decorating to speed up the process. I put mine on a cupcake pan to hold them in place.
10. Decorate your bombs
11. Pour on one cup of steaming hot milk and watch them pop!

Decorating Your Hot Chocolate Bombs

Gingerbread Man

1. Place some white chocolate into a piping bag
2. Pipe on the dots around the sphere, the ovals for the eyes and the hair
3. Add some black chocolate into a piping bag
4. Pipe on the dots for the eyes and the mouth
5. Use a paintbrush to add some pink dust for the cheeks

Grinch Bomb

1. Place some of the green hot chocolate into a piping bag and snip off the tip. You don't want the opening to be really big.
2. Drizzle the chocolate over the top of the bomb in a quick back and forth motion.
3. While the chocolate is still wet, add the red heart sprinkle on top.

Snowman Bomb

1. Place some of the crystal sprinkles into a bowl
2. Use your gloved hands to spread some melted white chocolate around the hot chocolate bomb
3. Roll the bomb into the sprinkles and coat it well
4. Add some flash dust to the bomb to give it sparkle
5. Mold a small carrot shaped nose out of the orange modeling chocolate
6. Attach the nose to the snowman with a bit of white chocolate
7. Add some black melted chocolate into a piping bag and pipe on the eyes and the mouth

Gold Christmas Tree Bomb

1. Add some jimmy sprinkles into a bowl
2. Add 1-2 teaspoons of gold luster dust and stir
3. Roll your hot chocolate bomb in the sprinkles until it's evenly covered
4. Pipe a Christmas tree on top of the bomb
5. Add a star sprinkle and some silver dragees to finish the Christmas tree

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